My name is Marianne Gualtieri. In 1998, when I was a 10th-grade student at Villa Walsh Academy in Morristown, New Jersey, I set up an observatory for the radio detection of meteors using the forward scatter of the signal from an FM radio station. Since that time, my father and I have improved our equipment and observed many major meteor showers. Please read our disclaimer and follow the links below to learn how to set-up your own radio meteor observatory.

Radio Meteor Pages

• Initial Set-Up plus Leonid/Geminid 1998 Results.
• Some Technical Details.
• Major Equipment Upgrade (includes circuit diagrams, source code, and useful information).
• Special Topics in Radio Meteor Observation..
• Leonid 1999 (Not Observed).
• Leonid 2000 Results.
• Ursid 2000 - Observed, but not very exciting.
• Quadrantid 2001 Results.
• Leonid 2001 Results.
• Leonid 2002 Results.
• Geminid 2002 Results.
• Leonid 2003 Results
• Quadrantid 2004 Results
• Leonid 2004 Results
• Leonid 2005 - Observed, but not very exciting.
• Leonid 2006 Results
• Geminid 2006 Results
• Quadrantid 2007 Results
• Eta-Aquarid 2007 Results
• Orionid 2007 Results
• Leonid 2007 Results
• Orionid 2008 Results
• Perseid 2009 Results
• Leonid 2009 - Observed, essentially no activity.
• Interference Caused by HD Radio

Links

• My other science fair project Speed of Sound in Gases.
• My father's web page,.
• Radio Station Look-Up (may be inactive) http://radiostation.com.
• Utilities for locating FM radio stations http://phoxes.com.
• Gebhardt, Philip, "Radio Detection of Meteors (Inactive)," http://www.odxa.on.ca/meteor.html.
• French Radio Meteor Observation Site of F5VLB (Includes ELF-VLF), http://perso.orange.fr/ON4eu/meteores.htm.
• International Meteor Organization, http://www.imo.net/.
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "Meteor Streams," http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?meteor_streams.
• Astronomy news (updated weekly) http://www.nightskyinfo.com .

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